The coffee wars of San Francisco are back on! We’re now hearing from sources that Blue Bottle is raising a big round of financing a little more than a year after it raised a whopping $75 million. We don’t know the exact amount, but given the immense (and at times odd) interest in … | Continue reading
Star pitcher José Fernández of the Miami Marlins was one of three people killed in a boat crash early Sunday morning. The Cuban-born right-hander was 24. | Continue reading
Unless you plan on bumping into stuff, don’t expect to record after-dark concerts and parties on your Snap Inc Spectacles. The company formerly known as Snapchat (they really should have just changed it to the emoji, Prince-style) confirms to me its new camera glasses are not cu … | Continue reading
Looking to get yourself a Chromecast Audio? Right now is the time to do it, as it is being discounted to $25 in the Google Store. | Continue reading
GUEST: Last month, journalist Kyle Chayka wrote an article for The Verge in which he coined the term ‘Airspace’ to describe the “coffee shops, bars, startup offices, and co-live/work spaces” that share a certain set of hallmarks (raw wood tables, exposed brick, Edison bulbs etc). … | Continue reading
Work/life balance in startup culture is total BS. And you are probably part of the problem. Until you say “enough” — and fight back, stand up and resist — you’re perpetuating a culture of burnout in which no one wins. Read More | Continue reading
According to Forbes, Apple’s latest iOS release seems to have accidentally weakened the the iPhone’s security, potentially allowing unauthorized access to localized backups.Elcomsoft, a Russian firm that has created tools to break into iPhones, discovered the vulnerability as it … | Continue reading
The Twittersphere was just a little bit quieter this morning after Marc Andreessen, father of the Tweetstorm, vacated the platform last night. While there’s no clear answer from him or others as to why he decided to take a break, Andreessen is not the first popular Silicon Valley … | Continue reading
Roman Road Gallery is a renovation and expansion project recently completed by Threefold Architects in London, UK. | Continue reading
SH House is a single-family residence designed by Pazgersh Architecture and Design in Herzliya, Israel. In planning the villa, the main ... | Continue reading
Barretts Grove is an archetypal Victorian street of two storey brick terraced houses later interrupted by detached apartment buildings | Continue reading
This loft apartment is a two-bedroom home designed by Elizabeth Roberts Architecture & Design in New York City. | Continue reading
Bitcoin has been at the receiving end of all the negative publicity until now, thanks to its extensive use by cybercriminals and darknet marketplaces. But one recent transaction allows both Bitcoin and Bitcoin community to break away from the stereotype. The Water Project, an int … | Continue reading
After Angry Birds earned more than $300 million at the box office, it was only a matter of time before other studios decided to jump on the bandwagon to adapt mobile phone games. The next one? Fruit Ninja.New Line Cinemas has snapped up the rights to turn the mobile game — which … | Continue reading
Dutch bicycle manufacturer VanMoof found that it had a problem. As it shipped its products to customers, it found that they were arriving to customers damaged. The company came up with a genius solution: print a graphic of a flatscreen television on the side of the box.VanMoof ha … | Continue reading
I have so many mixed feelings about BlackBerry’s DTEK50, a $300 Android-powered phone. I’m disappointed the company went with a “reference” design from a manufacturing partner for the hardware, while at the same time excited to use a device that marries Android with BlackBerry’s … | Continue reading
In this week's episode, we talk about Google Allo, a new Humble Bundle, and we say goodbye to Milk Music along with more Android apps and games news! | Continue reading
GUEST: As football season gears up again, it’s a good time to consider the relative benefits of broad-based live TV advertising vs. more targeted and distributed digital options. It’s not the black and white comparison that it used to be. Last year, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg f … | Continue reading
With Snapchat's big announcement and Google's hardware event just around the corner, you may have missed some of this week's best new apps.Each weekend, we round up a few of our favorite new and updated apps. This week's list includes an app to help you keep your messages secret, … | Continue reading
The darknet is not as secretive as it was thought earlier. A recent research indicates that many darknet vendors may have unwittingly announced their location on various deepweb marketplaces. According to researchers Paul Lisker and Michael Rose, the images of drugs and other pr … | Continue reading
After revelations that its founder had donated money to a pro-Donald Trump group, Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe has joined the discussion, noting in a Facebook post on Friday that "Palmer acted independently in a personal capacity, and was in no way representing the company."Oculus Ri … | Continue reading
GUEST: Self-driving vehicles are already on the nation’s roads and many more are coming. Uber, Google, Tesla, and the major automobile manufacturers have plans to develop and deploy tens of thousands of such vehicles on America’s roads over the next decade. A key point on the gov … | Continue reading
Google Allo heißt der neue Messenger Dienst von Google. Er wurde letzte Woche in Österreich für Android & iOS freigeschalten. WhatsApp und Facebook Messenger haben somit eine Schwester erhalten. Das besondere an Allo ist der Einsatz von künstlicher Intelligenz – genannt Google As … | Continue reading
Shawn Wang’s recently completed short film Planet Unknown looks a bit like WALL·E. It features a pair of rovers sent to a planet to see if it can harbor life, and as they set out to complete their mission, they run into some unexpected troubles.Comparisons to WALL·E are appropria … | Continue reading
I have high hopes for this one. While Google Allo is still fresh off the starting block, it could become the most significant chatbot messaging platform ever. For now, it does not even allow third-party participation. It’s fairly limited and has an uphill climb if it is going to … | Continue reading
California Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law a bill that will require commercial websites to remove information about an actor’s age upon request, in an attempt to combat agism in the state’s film industry.The law, known as AB-1687, states that commercial online entertainm … | Continue reading
When you start to code, you’ll quite quickly discover that much of the free material on YouTube is rather dry. There are some exceptions, of course. Perhaps one of the best examples of these is Coding Rainbow, by NYU lecturer Daniel Shiffman. Coding rainbow is a series of YouTube … | Continue reading
Dragon’s Tale is a Bitcoin Casino site where you can find the most fun and exotic casino-based mini-games in the whole Bitcoin gambling industry. Launched back in 2012, Dragon’s Tale was one of the pioneer Bitcoin casinos and the first to introduce a role-play-based casino. Since … | Continue reading
GUEST: “Where are the UK tech companies that can become the next Google or Facebook?” goes the cry. Well, I think the UK has plenty of what it takes to grow a tech titan or two, or three. Britain consistently punches above its weight when it comes to digital innovation and techn … | Continue reading
This week we went hands-on with Google Allo, put the LG V20's camera to the test, and talked about Google's big October 4 event. Here's the news of the week! | Continue reading
As of June 22, 2016, there were 492 published patent families directed to the theme of blockchain and 192 relating to bitcoin. Patent applications filed over the last 18 months are not in these statistics, and it is expected that significant numbers of new applications connected … | Continue reading
If you read our coverage of Tokyo Game Show earlier this month, you'll know that Rez is my favorite game of all time, and that the new version for PlayStation VR is its most spectacular iteration yet. Rez Infinite is the rare example of a pre-existing game that feels like it was … | Continue reading
On Monday, NASA is set to hold a press conference about some “surprising activity” on Jupiter’s icy moon of Europa. There’s no indication as to what that activity might be, other than it involves the Hubble Space Telescope, but it’s garnering more than one 2010 reference around t … | Continue reading
A controversial bitcoin alternative that offers owners and miners a choice of block size may be making a comeback.Source | Continue reading
On Saturday authorities in Washington state shared details on the arrest of Arcan Cetin, a 20-year-old man suspected of shooting and killing five people at a mall north of Seattle Friday night. Photo: AP/Washington State Patrol | Continue reading
It’s now official, Yahoo was indeed hacked! The reports of possible security breach have been floating around since last month. The company has now officially announced that the platform suffered The reports of a possible security breach have been floating around the internet for … | Continue reading
I’m known to be a bit negative about email. When you receive a few hundred of them a day, it tends to make you a little skittish, even a little depressed. Yet, it’s still my primary form of communication, especially when I’m trying to find answers to problems. In our highly digit … | Continue reading
Leah Reich was one of the first internet advice columnists. Her column "Ask Leah" ran on IGN, where she gave advice to gamers for two and a half years. During the day, Leah is a Senior User Researcher for Slack, but her views here do not represent her employer. You can write to h … | Continue reading
"We are quickly moving to a point where brands should now be media first, and producers of products and services second," says Nicholas... | Continue reading
Cash is the dominant form of transferring value in the remittance sector. Even though users can fund the transfer with bank transfers or credit cards, recipients will always get paid out in cash. Over in Ethiopia, the competition is heating up, as HomeSend plans to reduce cash us … | Continue reading
It’s rare to get a chance to meet someone truly different. Phil Tippett is one of those people. He has been creating monsters for the movies — including the memorable Holochess game in the original Star Wars film — for more than three decades. He reprised that work for Star Wars … | Continue reading
Developers are given a plethora of tools which can be used to build and grow their mobile apps. Platforms release APIs and SDKs with the hope apps will be built upon them, and there are even resources dedicated to increasing exposure amongst the masses. But in this data-driven wo … | Continue reading
Ready to get serious about mastering powerful social media platforms for business success? The Full-Stack Marketer Bundle will give you the tools necessary to build marketing expertise and build the strategies to succeed. Build marketing mastery with this brief yet comprehensive … | Continue reading
On Monday night, the two candidates running to be president of the United States will square off in the first debate. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are probably after this job for plenty of reasons, but one neat bonus is having new species named after you. A whole bunch of pre … | Continue reading
Lead developer of Drop Zone Chris DeRose argues that ICOs are little more than rebranded altcoins and come with similar risks. Source | Continue reading
NEWS OF THE MORNING Bosh won’t surrender | Davis feeling explosive | Shot changed Kyrie | Clips wanted K.G. No. 1: Bosh says it’s not over — He may have flunked the training camp physical. The Heat may be doing everything they can to keep him at a distance. Friends may be whisper … | Continue reading
I happened to spend much of this week in Abu Dhabi, from whence came, conveniently, the most important news of this week, month, year, and arguably decade. Yes, bigger than the American election; yes, bigger than the long-awaited rise of machine learning; yes, bigger than Elon Mu … | Continue reading
Even if you’ve tried virtual reality or already own a VR system, nothing has prepared you for what’s coming over the next month. Three major VR platforms are expected to launch before Thanksgiving Day with massive announcements and retail roll-outs in the works. Despite our dogge … | Continue reading